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Advice for a future NFL star Southeast Polk’s Kadyn Proctor has captured a lot of attention in football circles for good reasons. The 6-foot-7, 315-pound, 15-year-old offensive lineman is a top prospect for colleges from …
Jan Gillum retires this month at age 85 after 60 years with Ruan family businesses.
I’ve known her for more than 30 years and while she would never say this, I will: Jan Gillum is …
Installing solar panels on the roof of Peoples Bank in Waukee made sense.
“The panels are environmentally friendly,” said John Rigler II, the bank’s chairman and chief executive officer, and they supply affordable power …
The Iowa Legislature was in overtime with a bunch of stuff up in the air when I saw my old friend K.C. on the sidewalk east of Terrace Hill, Iowa’s governor’s mansion.
“What’s up?” I …
“Our Changing Menu” is a new book by food experts and science writers about how climate change is affecting what we eat and drink.
Coffee is one example. Coffee plants are “sensitive to even a …
Plans for a drive-thru Starbucks on Ingersoll Avenue remind me of my favorite Starbucks story.
I’ve never liked their coffee. Too bitter and overpriced for me. But I do admire their business model, which …
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed lives in ways we will never fully understand, but which have already created new paths to the future.
It’s natural to view many changes in negative terms.
We can’t go …
The Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, which is taking place this week, always brings to mind the Eisenhower Tree on the 17th hole.
President Dwight Eisenhower hit the 65-foot-tall loblolly pine …
Local author Joseph LeValley’s third novel, “The Third Side of Murder,” may be his best. Like his first two, the book revolves around Tony Harrington, a small-town Iowa newspaper reporter whose sharp instincts can create …
William Morrison, creator of the first practical electric car in 1890, may be Des Moines’ most underappreciated inventor.
His battery technology work was widely heralded at the time, and the dozen electric cars he designed …
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